THE BODYSHOP English cosmetic retailer The Body Shop has been ordered by a Brazilian court to pay more than US$ 431,000 (£218,000) to settle labor claims against it by three former employees of its "Fair Trade" project in the Amazon Rainforest. They claimed they had been unfairly dismissed and sued the company for back wages and other financial considerations. Ms Raimunda Gaya, acted as general cleaning helper for the Mebengokre Indians' Hospital at Redenção City in Pará State; Mr Paulo Miranda was hired as pilot who often ferried Dame Anita Roddick, the founder of the company, on her trips into the Amazon; Mr Saulo Petean acting as consultant for the Body Shop, lived with the Mebengokre* Indigenous Peoples from 1990-1996, before he was fired. Since 1990 The Body Shop has maintained a controversial commercial relationship with the Indians. The company provided the villages of Aukre, Kapot, Mekrangnoti and Pykany with logistical support and funding to produce Brazil nut oil and beaded wristbands handmade by the Mebengokre women to be sold in Body Shop stores worldwide.
cristobal coristóbal, was first built by the Panama Railroad Company in the 1850s at the time they dredged part of the 650 acres (2.6 km2) of virgin swamp on Manzanillo Island to build their headquarters and port of arrival for railway travelers. In the 1880s, the French Inter-Oceanic Canal Company arrived to find the port of Colón (then Aspinwall) just a few streets wide and long while the rest of Manzanillo Island was still a swamp. They used soil from their canal excavation works to create a landfill on a coral reef adjacent to the Panama Railroad's area of Colon. This new landfill area, upon which the French built their facilities, was called Christophe Colombe, a name which was translated in Spanish as Cristóbal Colón. In 1904, after Panama's US-backed declaration of independence from Colombia, the Canal Commission set up its provisional headquarters in Cristóbal.
Managing Environmental Issues Angela Williams SCI/362 July 29, 2012 Tereza Marks University of Phoenix Managing Environmental Issues In this paper, I will give a brief description of the Managing Environmental Issues simulation on the student website of University of Phoenix (2005). I will identify each of the stakeholders involved in the simulation. For each of the stakeholders, I will give a description of the ethical thinking, philosophy, conflicts, and competing priorities of each stakeholder. Last, a description of how these conflicts are understood as they relate to environmental justice issues will be given. Companies and poachers are largely destroying Rainforests.
Nurmukhametov Yersin Analytical Essay: “Men, women and chiefs” “Men, women and chiefs” is an infield work, which was written in Brazil by Claude Levi-Strauss, a French anthropologist born in Brussels in 1908. In this writing, Levi-Strauss tried to draw a parallel between a primitive society of Nambikwara and modern industrial ones. This paper will firstly describe the main questions author was trying to address, state the main argument of the author, and then analyze his work by evaluating the main argument in terms of clarity and precision and finally comment on scope and limitations of his work. The author’s project here is to show that primitive societies share structure with those which are considered to be more sophisticated. He uses the theory of social contract of Jean-Jacques Rousseau as a model to examine power structure of the Nambikwara tribe.
How does Joseph Conrad portray nature in Part II of Heart of Darkness? Nature is portrayed throughout Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as a force combatting the white man’s imperialistic ambitions and dominates the imagery and thematic concerns throughout the novella. Part Two of the book gives vivid descriptions of the Congo’s natural envczironment through Marlow’s narrative as he travels in the repaired steamer downriver deeper into the African continent towards the Inner Station and Kurtz himself. In the middle chapter of the book, nature plays a key role in setting the scene and providing a backdrop to Western imperialism. Conrad creates this image through his portrayal of the environment as an extremely foreboding and overbearing setting, a disease spreading force hostile to colonisation and as the precursor to civilization.
Machu Picchu is one of many royal estates built by the Inca Emperors. It is located in Cuzco, Peru. Machu Picchu is 7,970 feet above sea level. The mountain is smack dead in the middle of a tropical forest. Burger (n.d.), “The term Machu that precedes Picchu means old and was used by locals to differentiate it from the small hill behind it called Huayna Picchu, which means young” (p. 5) Machu Picchu was home for royal blood, servants, farmers, and care givers when not many people were around in the winter.
Xunantunich: the Maiden of Stone Xunantunich (shoe-naan-two-niche) is a site of Mayan ruins located in the Cayo district of western Belize, next to the Guatemalan border. The environment of the site is dense, heavy jungle. Ruins don’t usually survive well in the acidic soil of jungles, and the humid, warm climate leads to quick jungle growth, which quickly reclaimed the structures, which were described as large, steep mounds when found. The ruins were discovered in 1846, which led to the current name of Xunantunich. While out in the bush, a man reportedly saw an apparition of a maiden-Ichtabos- when he stumbled upon the remains while hunting.
ARTICLE IN PRESS Land Use Policy 23 (2006) 205–225 www.elsevier.com/locate/landusepol Agricultural expansion and deforestation in lowland Bolivia: the import substitution versus the structural adjustment model Pablo Pachecoa,b,c,Ã Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, MA, USA Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia c ˆnia (IPAM), Av. Nazare 669, 66035 170 Belem, Para, CEP 66035-170, Brazil ´, Institute of Environmental Research for Amazo b a Received 6 October 2003; received in revised form 25 June 2004; accepted 2 September 2004 Abstract This paper analyzes the influence that both policies and markets have on driving forest conversion to agricultural land use focusing on the Bolivian case. It assesses the effects that two models of economic development have had on prompting agricultural expansion, and hence deforestation in lowland Bolivia. The first model, of economic diversification and import substitution, initiated in the early 1950s, stimulated the occupation of forestlands for agricultural expansion through colonization, and incentives to developing a medium and large-scale agriculture. The second model of development, initiated in the mid-1980s, prompted by structural adjustment policies, led to an intense process of agrarian change in the lowlands, mainly by connecting the agricultural frontier to the international market of commodities, particularly soybeans.
The Killer of the Amazon Rainforest The Amazon rainforest, located in Brazil, is an essential part of our planet. According to the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER), the Amazon rainforest holds over two thirds of all the fresh water found on Earth and also produces twenty percent of Earths oxygen supply. Unfortunately, a devastating transformation is taking place throughout the majority of the forest because of the process of deforestation. There are many negative impacts that come with this. Some of which include, global warming, destruction of habitat, and soil erosion.
In environmentalist Bill McKibben’s 2008 article, “Civilization Last Chance,” we are warned that we are in a state of emergency time we have little to save our environment from the danger. The current status of our earth is in danger, and people don’t seem to realize the serious consequence for the future. Robert W. Christopherson’s textbook, Geosystems, is an introduction to physical geography with scientific evidence. The current edition of Geosystems introduces the consensus science regarding human-created climate change. The high content of carbon causes global warming and global warming causes climate change.